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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844024030627 Identifying the mental health burden in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) patients in Switzerland: A pilot study Rahel Susanne König, Daniel Henry Paris, Marc Sollberger, Rea Tschopp PII...

Cytokines IL1β, IL6, TNFα and serum cortisol levels may not constitute reliable biomarkers to identify individuals with post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 Michael Fleischer; Fabian Szepanowski; Anne K Mausberg; Livia Asan; Ellen Uslar; Denise Zwanziger; Lothar Volbracht; Mark Stettner; Christoph...

A Case Report on Care-Seeking Type Illness Anxiety Disorder after COVID-19 Infection Kasi, Lakshmi S.; Moorthy, Bini This case report highlights the diagnostic challenges presented by the overlapping symptoms of illness anxiety disorder (IAD) and long COVID-19 (LC-19). This case report focuses...

"March 11 marks 3 years since WHO declared COVID-19 to be a pandemic. While the world is determined to move on from the acute phase, at least 65 million people are estimated to struggle with long COVID, a debilitating post-infection multisystem condition with common symptoms of fatigue...

Substantial differences in perception of disease severity between post COVID-19 patients, internists, and psychiatrists or psychologists: the Health Perception Gap and its clinical implications Ruzicka, Michael; Ibarra Fonseca, Gerardo Jesus; Sachenbacher, Simone; Heimkes, Fides; Grosse-Wentrup...

I use to believe in the concept when I was 21 based upon little more than some body in authority saying it was real and also being fooled in to thinking I was experiencing it, which I'm now embarrassed to admit. So what about you guys, have you ever believed in it and if so, what convinced you...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3037818/ Abstract The influence of psychosocial factors on the development and progression of cancer has been a longstanding hypothesis since ancient times. In fact, epidemiological and clinical studies over the past 30 years have provided strong...

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I know central sensitisation theory is the new buzzword by many of the bps brigade, Per Fink refers to it a lot in his slides, and has no evidence. May I ask as well as I think them suggesting central sensitisation is the cause of pain in pwme, are they also trying to claim it’s the cause of...

eta: obviously not a recommendation.

Full article translation excepting references reproduced below - Fair use, given the context: https://www-dgpm-de.translate.goog/de/aktuelles/nachrichten/nachricht/long-covid-wo-bleibt-die-psychosomatik/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en German Society for Psychosomatic Medicine and Medical...

(An old study, but one that deserves to be remembered as it addresses the question of whether the increased heart rate of POTS could be caused by a fear of standing. Yes, that idea sounds ridiculous but a recent paper proposed it. Thanks to Sid for bringing this 2007 paper to our attention.)...

In a new blog series, we will investigate how illnesses were once thought to result from stress, psychological disturbance, or deviant personality features. From the cancer-prone personality to the theory of ‘refrigerator mothers’, medicine appears to suffer from a recurrent tendency to...

International Journal of Psychoanalysis, Transgenerational violence and immunological deficits, a psychosomatic hypothesis, 2022, Papazian Abstract This essay relies on the somatising identification mechanism, conceived to account for the delayed effects of projective identifications on the...

New article by @dave30th https://www.codastory.com/waronscience/long-covid/

Posts about the preprint of this paper that were on the psychologising Long Covid thread have been merged with the new thread on the paper now published.

Hi, is there anyone who can help me getting the full text of this article: https://pep-web.org/browse/document/psar.042.0217a It's an old article from a psychoanalytic journal (The Psychoanalytic review) that is not included in some databases and where a yearly subscription costs more 1000...

This is a study from Aarhus, Denmark recently published as a paywalled Letter to the Editor in the journal Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic. Aarhus University has written a press release about the study. Aarhus is by the way also where Per Fink is located and the epicentre of the Danish...

We have previously discussed interventions that manipulate how patients report symptoms as a separate form of bias, rather than as part of the placebo effect. Critics of the placebo effect have pointed out that according to the available evidence, "placebo effects are weak: regression to the...

Abstract Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) is a chronic disease with the hallmark symptom of post-exertional malaise. Evidence for physiological causes is converging, however, currently no diagnostic test or biomarker is available. People with ME/CFS experience...